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WAYNE COUNTY 

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Guide and Souvenir 



DETROIT 



MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS 

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SILAS FARMER 

Hmtoi i,>grnf>hrr of tl,> ( it]/ ../ l>rtroit 

Author of •' History ..f PHn.it aixi Mic»ii»fiin " "The Royal Rail Road ' 
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INDEX 



Advaiitnu'rs ..f I>,trr.it. 44. W. 

Art Mus«uin. 12. 

Ami Arbor. 7^. 

Atlih'lir (lulls. 415 

Baifley Fomitftiii hihI Bust. 2. 

Banks. h2. 

Bank Capital. VJ 

Bank I*rovrrl»s. :{^ 

Bcllr Isir I»urk. U\. '.i'2. M 

BelU- ls\v Bridirr. Ifl. M 

Belt lAue Biiilr.Mul. ttH. 

Bi.MI.- Ili.UM-. 12. 

Boanl ..f Tnylr. .V2. 

B<mt Housi'S. 12. 

Biuitiiii: Faciliticj*. is 

Boulrvanl. 'M. 

Brush Stn-«t IK-|...l. 12. 

Callmlir ("ath«'<lnil. now SS. 

I*et«'ran«l Patil'sCliunh. 12. 
('ana«lian Paciflr H H Dip..! 2^ 
Canal St. Clair Flats. MO 
Campus Martins. 2 
Capin Ilin ( 'liurrli and Monastery. 

1«. 
Carriages. TO. 

Ca«8 A%'e. Baptist Cliurrli. r. 
Cass Ave. Mrthixlist Kpiwopal 

Chunh. H. 
Census <»f City. 44. 
Census (tf Wayne Count v. 'M\. 
Centnil M. K. I'liunh. <». 
Custom llous*'. 2«> 
Chatham. S(>. 
Charities. An>o»nit Invested in. 

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Christ Kpiscopal Cliunli, 12 

Churches. No. of. 44. 

City Hall. 1. 

City Seal. 3."). 

Cl.H-k inCitv Hall. 1. 

Convent of (ftxnl Shephenl. 2X. 

Colleu'e Jesuit. 12. 

Colleire Ditroil Medieal. 20. 

Di'troit Athletie Cluh. s. 

Detroit Colleire of Medicine. 20. 

Detroit.Ijuisin^A: Northern H K. 

Depot. 2M. 
iK'troit vV Milwauk.r K i{. 1 ). 

pot. 12 
Deposits in Wayne County Kank. 

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Depots. 12. IM. 2S. 

Di>tri( t Teh jrraph Co., 72. 

Drives Carriage. 82. 

Kini>;nition in IK-'iO. 40. 

r.pipliany Kefornud Kpis<<»piil 
Chureij. 24. 

KveniuK Journal. 2rt. 

Kveiiini? New^, 28. 

Kxposition Buildinifs. :U». 

Families. NumlM-r of. 44. 

Fire of lStr>. :{.">. 
j Fire Com. Olliees. 2M. 
I Fire Department Facilities, 44. 

First Contrreunitional Church, ><. 

First Preshyterian Church. 8. 

Fishinir and lluntin;:, HO. 

Ferries, tW. 
' Ferry's Seed Warehous^^-. 20. 
' Ferr)''s See<l P^irms, 24. 



INDEX, 



Plint & Pere Marquette R. R. 

Depot, 28. 
Fort and River Streets, 28 to BO. 
Fort Shelby, 28, 40. 
Fort Street Bridge, 28. 
Fort Street Presbyterian Church, 

28. 
Fort Wayne, 30. 
Free Press, 28. 
French Farms, 35, 42. 
Gas Works, 12. 
Orace Episcopal Church, 28. 
Grace Hospital, 8. 
Grand River Avenue, 24, 26. 
Grand Trunk Junction, 26. 
Grand Circus Park, 6. 
Grant's Old Home, 18. 
Gratiot Avenue, 20, 24. 
Good Shepherd Convent, 28. 
Griswold Street, 26, 28. 
Grosse Pointe, 18. 
Grotto of Virgin Mary, 22. 
Hack Fares, 70. 
Halls and Opera Houses, 74. 
Harper Hospital, 8. 
Hamtramck's Grave, 14. 
Ham tramck House, 18. 
Historical Sketch, 35, 52. 
Home of the Friendless, 8. 
Hotels, 72, 80. 
House and Store Numbers, 

60, 62. 
House of Correction, 20. 
Hunting and Fishing, 48 
Immanuel Lutheran Church, 26. 
Industrial School. 24. 
Insane Asylum, 78. 
International Exposition, 30. 
Irving School, 8. 
Jefferson Avenue, 10, 18. 



Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian 

Church, 12. 
Jesuit College, 12. 
John Brown House, 18. 
Junction, Grand Trunk, 26. 
Lake Erie, Essex & Detroit River 

R. R., 80. 
Lake St. Clair, 1, 46. 
Lake Shore & Mich. Southern 

R. R. Depot, 12. 
Little Sisters' Home, 22. 
Lunch Rooms, 74. 
Lyceum Theatre, 20. 
Magnetic Springs, 80. 
Manufacturing Institutions, 50. 
Marine Hospital, 14. 
Messenger Service, 72. 
Mettawas Hotel, 80. 
Michigan Avenue, 26. 
Mich. Central R. R. Depot, 18. 
Mt. Clemens, 80. 
Mt. Elliott Cemetery, 14. 
Municipal Courts, 20. 
Musical Advantages, 50. 
Museum of Art, 48. 
Normal School, 78. 
North Baptist Church, 10. 
Oakland Hotel, 80. 
Orchard Lake, 78. 
Opera Houses and Halls, 74. 
Orphan Asylum, Catholic, 14. 
Orphan Asylum, Protestant, 14. 
Our Lady of Help, Catholic 

Church, 14. 
Palmer's Log House, 10. 
Pontiac, 78. 
Perry s Cave, 78. 
Police Force, 44. 
Police Headquarters, 20. 
Polish Catliedral, 22. 



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r.>iiti!ir Tror, 14. 
I'(»|nilati<»ii of C'itv. 44. 
I'Mptilutitui of Wayiu* County, 

I '..St (>fli«r. '2i\ 

I'Mblic Liltrary, 4. 

I'lililir S<'ho«»ls. 44. 

I'lit inHiiy. 7s 

KiviT nml Islaii«ls. 74. 1^. 

liivir ThaiiuH. HO. 

Kail Hoiul nridgf, 12. 

Kail Koail hrpot.H, ?2. 

Kail Uoail Firrlrs. IK. 

Sarriil Heart Acailciiiy, IJ 

Safr I>t|«»sit (•(... H4. 

^- roiul Aviiiue I*rfNl»ytfn«i> 

Cliunh. 24. 
SimpsKii M. K. Cliunh. '2\ 
S<»ltli«T>' Moiiuiiu-iit. 2 
Star Islaiui, 7H 
Stniinhoat Lims. (IS. 7(». 
Stn-rt.s Karly. :i5. 
St net Kail KoaiU. (\2. (M. m. 
St. AnnrH CathoUi- Church. 2s. 
St Ilonifaic Catholic Ciiunh. 

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St. Clair Flats. HO. 
St. .Ii»hus Kpist'opal CInmh. (\ 
8t. .lohns Luihrnm Chunh. 20 
St. .losiph's Kpisropal Chunh. 

10. 
St. l.ukfs Hospital. M) 
Si. Mary s Ho.^pital. 20 
St. Fatrirk s Cath«)li«- Chun h. (5. 
St. Prtrr's Kpi.scopal Chunh. 2(5. 
St. Viiut'nt do Paul Cath..lic 

Chunh. 2(5. 
Str.'iinboat IJurs. 70. 
Taxable \'aluatioii>;, 44. 
Taxes. City when payahle. ')A. .*»«». 



Taxes, State ami County when 

payahle. "is, ."iU. 
Teleirniph Ofllces. 2(5. 72. 
Thames Kiver, so 
Thompson Home for ()M Ladies. 

8. 
Thompstm Presbyterian Chun h. 

10. 

I Trumbull Avenue Pre-^byterian 
Church. 24. 
^Unitarian Church. «. 
j University of Michigan. 7s. 
! Universjdisl Chunh. (i. 
View fnan City Hall Tower 1. 
Wabash A" St. I^miIs K. K. I>ep<.t. 

2H. 
War with South. 40. 
Water Commission ( Mll<-es. 12. 
\\ ater Works Kesrrvoir. IH. 
Walkerville. HO. 
Walkervilh- Ferry. 12. 
Wayne County Savinirs li.ink, 

:W. .VJ. H2. 
Whitney s Open Houik». 28. 
WiKMlmen' Cemetery, '.iO. 
\N iMKlwanl .\ venue 4. 10. 
W.MHJwHnl Avr. Baptist Chureh. 

1) 
WcMMlwanI .Vve. Congregational 

Chunh. (5. 
Wo.Kl\N:,rd Ave. .M. K. Church. 

10. 
Westminster Pnsbyt<rian 

Chunh, H. 
W<HMlwanl Avenue Kailn>ad Sta- 
tion. 10. 
Vounir Men's Christian AsscKjia- 

tion. (J. 74. 
Vouni: Woman's Home. (>. 
Vpsilanti. 7s. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Art Museum, 43, 

Boat House, Belle Isle Park, 109. 

Casino, Belle Isle Park, 108. 

Central M. E. Church, 19. 

Christ Episcopal Church, 45. 

City Hall, 3. 

Elmwood Cemetery, Views in, 49. 

Engine House, 17. 

First Presbyterian Church, 27. 

Fort Shelby, 95. 

Fort St. Presbyterian Church, 97. 

Grace Hospital, 31. 

Gen. Grant's Old Home, 63. 

Grosse Pointe, 61. 

Grotto of the Virgin, 91. 

Harper Hospital, 29. 

High School, 11. 

Home of the Friendless, 39. 

House of Correction, Main 
Building. 81. 

House of Correction, Superin- 
tendent's Residence, 83. 

Irving School, 33. 

John Brown House, 65. 

Little Sisters Home for Aged 
Poor, 89. 

Marine Hospital, 55. 

Market Building, 7. 

Medical College Detroit, 77. 

Mich. Central R. R. Depot, 67. 

Monument Soldiers, 5. 

Mount Elliott Cem. Entrance, 57. 

Municipal Courts Building, 73. 

Police Headquarters, 71. 

Pontiac Tree, 51. 



Post Office, 93. 

Public Library, 13. 

Railroad Bridge Jefferson Ave., 

47. 
Railroad Ferry Dock, 69. 
^Seal of City, 34. 
Soldiers' Monument, 5. 
St. Anne's Catholic Church, 99. 
St. John's Lutheran Church, 79. 
St. John's P. E. Church, 21. 
St. Luke's Hospital, 103. 
St. Mary's Hospital, 75. 
St. Peter and Paul Catholic 

Church, 41. 
Thompson Home for Old Ladies, 

37. 
Unitarian Church, 25. 
Vaults of Safe Deposit Co. , 85, 

86, 87. 
Vegetable Market, 9. 
Water Works, 59. 
Wayne Co. Bank, Exterior of, 

inside back cover. 
Wayne Co. Bank, Interior of, 114, 
Wayne County, Map of. ix. 
Wayne Co. , Original Bounds of, i. 
Wayne, Portrait of General, 

inside front cover. 
Windmill Point, 101. 
Woodmere Cemetery Entrance, 

105. 
Woodward Ave. Baptist Church, 

23. 
Yoimg Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, 15. 



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J\ >g)icco from CKc (i'.r^ aKaPP looser. 

'I'he most c«»ni|»rt'lu'n.-ivo view of l\\v city ^'im be 
ohlaine«l by uscemling to the tower of the City Hull. 
Take a fieKl >rlas8 with you, and from th.- windows you 
will see sighu that will well rej»ay tor tin- time taktii. 

The whole city, rivn- and islands, :ii»d even Lake St. 
(lair, tivr miles away, lik< a |>aii.»rama will lie before you, 
and raeh window, in turn, will rrvral bi-auties of its own. 

IKe Git;/ <>fafP. 

The Citv Hall ils.'lf. wa.^ cnclf.l al a cost of ^♦;(K),0()0, 
and the ^Mound is valued at |M»rhaps twice as much more. 

The City took formal pos-Mcssion of the building on July 
4, 1.S71. llA size is j)()xli(H) feet. It-s height to cornice, 
66 feel, aud to top of flag-statf, 2(M) feet. The four stone 
figures about the t<»wer are each 14 feet hiirh. an<l repre- 
sent Justice, Industry, Art and Commerce. 

The clock is the lari^'est in the United States, and tliere 
is but one larger in the world. It cost S:>,0()0, and is 
wound up weekly. The dials are S| feet in diameter. 
The four statues at llie four corners in the second story, 
represent Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, Father Richard, 
an rarlv local priest. La Salle, one of the earliest French 
explorers, an.l Father Marquette, one of the fin*t Jesuit 
mis.sioiniries. The statues were presented to the City by 
Bela Hubbard, and w.t.' place.! in position in August, 
1884. 



Coming down from the tower, the Soldiers' Monument, 
directly in front of the City Hall, will next claim your 
attention. It was designed by Randolph Rogers, and 
erected at a cost of $70,000. It was formally unveiled 
and dedicated on April 9, 1872. The monument is de- 
signed as an offering to the memory of the brave men from 
Michigan who perished in the war with the South, and 
bears the following inscription: "erected by the people 

OF MICHIGAN, IN HONOR OF THE MARTYRS WHO FELL 
AND THE HEROES WHO FOUGHT IN DEFENCE OF LIBERTY 
AND UNION." 

The body of the monument is of Westerly, Rhode 
Island, granite, and the statues are of golden bronze, cast 
in Munich, Bavaria. The general design of the monument 
is embraced in four sections. The first section has, at its 
corners, four bronze eagles. The second section has four 
statues, representing the four departments of the United 
Service, — Infantry, Marine, Cavalry, and Artillery; each 
of the statues is seven feet high. The third section has 
four allegorical figures, representing Victory, Union, 
Emancipation, and History. The fourth section, or 
crowning figure of the monument, is eleven feet high, and 
represents Michigan allegorically, in aboriginal garb. 
On the four sides of the monument are bronzed medallions 
of Lincoln, Grant, Farragut, and Sherman. The height 
of the monument, including the crowning figure, is sixty 
feet. On the left of the monument is a bronze bust of 
Ex-Governor John J. Bagley erected at a cost of about 
$1,500, by popular subscriptions, and on the right in the 
centre of Fort street is the Bagley Fountain erected at a 
cost of $5,000 in pursuance of a bequest by Mr. Bagley. 
Immediately in the rear of the monument is the Central 
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offices of the Park Co-nmission and the Board of Health, 
and in the rear of th( jilding, the vegetable market. 

On the left, or north of the monument, and also facing 
the Campus Martins, which has few or no equals else- 
where as a public square, is the Detroit Opera House ; a 
really elegant structure, capable of seating 2,000 persons. 

Going up Woodward Avenue one block to State Street, 
and turning to the left one block, at the north end of 
Griswold Street, the large and imposing High School 
looms into view. One block from Woodward Avenue to 
the right you will find the Public Library, a large and 
substantial building, erected at a cost of 1156,000, and 
dedicated January 22, 1877. It stands in the centre of 
a triangular park and contains about 100,000 volumes. 
Connected with it there is a very large and exceptionally 
well lighted free reading room, which is liberally supplied 
with current periodicals and newspapers, at an expenditure 
of nearly a thousand dollars per year. The Library is 
free to any person for consultation, and any resident of 
Detroit over fifteen years of age may draw books, after 
signing an agreement to abide by the rules, and getting 
some citizen to sign as surety. In the second story there 
is quite an extensive free museum which is well worthy of 
a visit. 

©Y^ooilaoaril ©h^peaue. 

This avenue is joar excellence the avenue of the city, 
with one terminus at the river's edge, and the other reach- 
ing in a straight line for an indefinite distance into the 
country. Of an unusual width, and with an ever in- 
creasing number of the most elegant stores and residences 
along its route, it is probably excelled by no avenue on 
the continent. It stands as a type of progressive Ameri- 
can ideas and is eminently modern and stylish. 

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Returning to this avenue, and going one block north- 
wards, you will see on the left at the corner of Grand 
River Avenue and Griswold Street, the imposing and 
elegant building of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion, one of the very finest structures of the kind in the 
world, and it will well repay you to inspect its interior ar- 
rangements. One block further north at the head of 
Clifford Street is one of the best of the fire engine houses. 

Taking the Woodward Avenue line of street cars, and 
proceeding a few blocks northward, you will see on either 
side the Grand Circus Parks; their fountains and the 
seats inviting to rest and meditation. Here, especially on 
a summer evening, large numbers of children and adults 
gather to enjoy the cool of the day and the pleasing scenes. 
Fronting on the West Park is the elegant Universalist 
Church, built of stone and known as the Church of Our 
Father. 

On the right of Woodward Avenue, immediately after 
leaving the Grand Circus, is the large and costly stone 
church, chapel and parsonage of the Central M. E. Church, 
and on the left, two blocks away, the Young Woman's 
Plome, an attractive and substantial building. Three blocks 
further on the right of Woodward Avenue, are the beauti- 
ful buildings of St. John's Episcopal Church, including 
church, chapel, rectory and church house. Soon after, on 
the right, you pass the handsome church and chapel of 
the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church. A block further, 
on the left, is the Woodward Avenue Congregational 
Church, and on the right, one block away, at the corner of 
Adelaide and John R Streets, is St. Patrick's Roman 
Catholic Church. At Bagg Street, looming up through 
the trees, and two blocks away, on the left, you will see 
the tower of the Cass Avenue Baptist Church, while on 
the right at Edmund Street is the Unitarian Church, and 
on the opposite side of Edmund Street the elegant, brown 

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stone edifice of the First Presbyterian Church. A num- 
ber of blocks further on, you will notice on the left the 
round brick tower of the Westminster Presbyterian 
Church, and a block further and one block from Wood- 
ward Avenue on the left, on the corner of Cass and Selden 
Avenues, is the Cass Avenue M. E. Church, and a block 
away on the right at John R Street, the ample grounds and 
commodious building of Harper Hospital, named after its 
founder, Walter Harper, but largely endowed also by a 
former well-known market woman, Nancy Martin. On 
the same street, at the corner of Willis Avenue two 
blocks further north, is Grace Homoeopathic Hospital 
named after a daughter of Senator James McMillan, who 
was the chief founder of this helpful institution. At 
Willis Avenue also, just off from Woodward Avenue on 
the left, is the Irving Public School, a good sample of 
the school buildings of the city. Immediately after pass- 
ing Willis and Canfield Avenues, you will see on the left 
the large arched doorways of the Detroit Athletic Club 
House, used by one of the largest and best patronized 
clubs in the city. Two blocks further, at Forest Avenue 
on the right, is one of the latest and most beautiful of 
churches, the First Congregational. Four blocks north 
and one block west at the corner of Cass and Hancock 
Avenues is the Thompson Home for Old Ladies; named 
after its largest benefactor, Mrs. David Thompson. It is 
one of the most beautiful and beneficial of the local 
charities. 

The next place of public interest is the large and well 
arranged building known as the "Home of the Friendless," 
situated on Warren Avenue, just off Woodward, on the 
left. Go in, if you have time, and you will be more thank- 
ful that such broad and benevolent institutions have an 
existence. Keturning to Woodward Avenue and passing 
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just off from Woodward on Hendrie Avenue you will see 
the chapel of the Thompson Presbyterian Church. A few 
blocks further on the right at Medbury Avenue is the 
chapel of St. Joseph's Protestant Episcopal Church, and 
soon after you will also pass on the right the chapel of 
the Woodward Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. 

A ride of three miles from the City Hall brings you to 
the railroad crossing, with the termination of the street 
railway, and the station of the Detroit & Bay City and 
Grand Trunk Railroads. This is a convenient place of 
arrival and departure, as the Woodward Avenue cars will 
take you to and from the center of the city. 

Three blocks beyond the R. R. crossing, on the south- 
west corner of Woodward Avenue and the Boulevard, you 
will notice the brick chapel of the North Baptist Society. 
At this point you can take the electric cars, and a rapid 
ride of about six miles will take you within a few hundred 
feet of the stock farm and widely known Log House of 
Senator T. W. Palmer, which is well worthy of a visit, 
and visitors are always welcome. There are many old 
relics in the house, and the herds of Jersey cows and col- 
lection of Percheron horses form an attractive feature, and 
delightful winding walks and driveways are numerous. 

Returning to Woodward Avenue and going over its 
entire route to the river, you will find the main Ferry land- 
ing with boats running frequently to Canada and Belle 
Isle. 

This may be called the oldest and most aristocratic 
thoroughfare in the city, its characteristics are French 
conservatism, and modern segregation. 

By many persons it is deemed not less beautiful than 
Woodward, and an afternoon can be pleasantly devoted 
to objects on and near it. 

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Taking the cars going east from Woodward Avenue, 
you proceed up Jefferson Avenue, passing very soon on 
the right, old Fireman's Hall, now occupied by the Water 
Commission. The block above is occupied by the Biddle 
House Hotel. The next street is Brush Street and on the 
right two blocks away is the depot of the D., G. H. & M. 
R. R. and the L. S. & M. S. R. R. Soon after the lofty and 
imposing building of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, 
in charge of the sisters of that name, is seen ; and almost 
immediately afterwards, on the left, is the Catholic 
Church of SS. Peter and Paul, the oldest church build- 
ing in the city. 

In the same block is the large and imposing Jesuit Col- 
lege, built of stone and constituting one of the architectural 
features of the avenue. Almost opposite, on the right at 
Hastings Street, is the unique building known as the Art 
Museum, where many exceedingly valuable pictures and 
Japanese curios are always on exhibition. From this 
point numbers of fine residences pass rapidly before you; 
and many of them are very attractive. The handsome 
stone edifice on the right, with its tower and chime of 
bells, is Christ's Episcopal Church, and on the left, a little 
further on, is the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church 
and Chapel; soon after, on the right, the Gas Works 
come in sight quite near the avenue. Three blocks fur- 
ther takes you across the bridge extending over the D. & 
M. R. R. Another three blocks and you will cross the 
Chene Street car track, leading to the northern part of the 
city. One block further and you come to Joseph Cam- 
pau Avenue, and at the foot of this street is the ferry to 
Walkerville and the boat houses of the Excelsior and De- 
troit Clubs; the regatta grand stand is usually located 
near here. 

Near the eastern limits of the city, on McDougall Ave- 
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ing, the St. Vincent's Catholic Female Orphan Asylum. 
Soon after, on the right, you pass the Protestant Orphan 
Asylum. Leaving the cars here, a walk of some five 
blocks on Elmwood Avenue will bring you to Elmwood 
Cemetery, where an hour or more can be spent very pleas- 
antly among the many beautiful walks and drives and 
monuments. Returning towards Jefferson Avenue, you 
will see on the right the Church and Parochial School of 
Our Lady of Help, and on the left the Building and 
grounds of the Michigan Athletic Club. 

Again taking Jefferson Avenue to the eastward, within 
the distance of a block from Elmwood, you pass on the 
right the immense stove factory and warerooms of the 
Michigan Stove Company ; and immediately afterwards, 
the stump of the Old Pontiac Tree, like some Rip Van 
Winkle of the forest, stands before you. The tree was so 
named from a tradition that it was the silent witness of 
the battle of Bloody Bridge, where on July 31, 1763, 
Captain Dalzell and many of his command were surprised 
and slain during the progress of the Pontiac conspiracy. 
Two blocks further at the right on Jefferson Avenue, and 
standing back some distance from the street, you will see 
the U. S. Marine Hospital with its graceful verandas at 
each story. Turning in on the left you can visit Mt. 
Elliott Cemetery. One of the chief points of interest 
here, is the grave and tombstone of Colonel John Francis 
Hamtramck, the first American commandant at Detroit. 
He was originally buried in the graveyard of St. Anne's, 
but in 1866, the remains were placed in an oaken casket, 
and deposited in Mount Elliott. The grave is located at 
the intersection of Shawe and Resurrection Avenues. 
The inscription on the stone is as follows : 

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Sacred 

to the Memory of 

John Francis Hanitramck, Esq., 

Colonel of the 1st United States Reg:iment of Infantry 

and 

Commandant of 

Detroit and its Dependencies. 

He departed this life on the 11th of April, 1803. 

Aged 45 years. 7 months & 28 days. 

True Patriotism 

And a zealous attachment to National liberty, 

joined to a laudable ambition, 

led him into Military service at an early 

period of his life. 

He was a soldier even before he was a'man. 

He was an active participator 

in all the Dangers, Difficvdties and honors 

of the Revolutionary War: 

And his heroism and uniform good conduct 

procured him the attention and personal thanks of 

the immortal Washington . 

The United States in him have lost 

A valuable officer and a good citizen, 

And Society an Useful and Pleasant Member ; 

, to his family the loss is incalculable, 

and his friends will never forget 

the Memory of Hamtramck. 

This humble monument is placed over 

his Remains 

by the officers who had the Hoftor 

to serve under his command— 

A small 1)ut grateful tribute to 

his merit 

and 
his worth. 

Opposite the cemetery is the Capuchin Church and 
Monastery. Another two blocks on Jefferson will bring 
you to Beaufait Avenue and the depot of the Belt Line 
Railroad. Five blocks further on you will reach Fronte- 
nac Boulevard and the bridge to Belle Isle Park. If the 
weather is not too warm, by all means walk across, and, 
midway on the bridge, you will have a beautiful view of 
the river and of the large variety of steam and sail vessels 
that continually move through this, the finest strait of 
fresh water on the globe. The Park itself is mentioned 

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elsewhere. Passing Frontenac Avenue, some four or five 
streets further ou, on the right, and close to the river, is an 
immense tree, and, near it, the old liamtrarack House, 
once occupied by Col. Haratramck. 

Something over a mile further will bring you to the 
massive buildings and immense reservoir of the Water 
Works, supplying between 30,000,000 and 40,000,000 gal- 
lons of water daily. If you make this trip in cherry 
time, go a mile or two further, and taste the Grosse Pointe 
cherries, enjoy the beach of the beautiful Lake St. Clair, 
and see the well-located and handsome Grosse Pointe 
Casino and the numerous beautiful summer residences, 
with their spacious and attractive grounds. 

On your return towards the city, if you turn to the 
right at Rivard street and go three blocks north, you will 
come to Fort street, where you will see on the north side, 
and four doors from Rivard, the house No. 253, in which 
Gen. Grant, then Lieutenant, lived during his stay in 
Detroit, from 1846 to 1851. 

Two blocks from Jefferson Avenue, on Congress street, 
and near St. Antoine street, at No. 185, is the house in 
which John Brown, " whose soul is marching on," and 
others, held a preliminary meeting, which resulted in the 
Harper's Ferry raid. 

Returning to Jefferson Avenue, and riding westward a 
little over a mile, to the termination of the route, you will 
reach Third Street, and the depot of the Michigan Cen- 
tral Railroad. 

From the dock connected with this depot, the cars run 
on to the railroad ferries, and are transferred across the 
river. 

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An interesting morning trip can be made by the Gratiot 
Avenue cars, through the German quarter. 

Indeed, Gratiot Avenue is a good exponent of the thrift 
and energy of our German citizens. There is an air of 
calm and settled content in all that appertains to the 
locality. 

Taking the cars at the Campus Martins, and going 
through Monroe Avenue, the first street is Farmer Street, 
and one block to the east is the Police Headquarters, and 
two blocks further, and also on the east side, at Randolph 
Street, is the Lyceum Theatre. Ferry's immense seed 
warehouse occupies one-half of the block. Going on 
through a portion of Randolph Street and Miami Avenue 
to Gratiot Avenue, a ride of two blocks will disclose on 
the right, about a block away, the tall and well-finished 
building devoted to Municipal Courts, and also the 
County Jail. One block further, also on the right, you 
will see St. Mary's Hospital, and also the Detroit College 
of Medicine. 

At Russell Street, one block away, on the eft, you will 
see the graceful spire of St. John's Lutheran Church, the 
largest and finest Lutheran Church in the city; and also, 
at Russell Street, on the left, you will notice a Police Sta- 
tion at the corner, and going northerly, on Russell, you 
pass the hay and wood market on the right, and approach 
the extensive and outwardly attractive House of Correc- 
tion. Much time may be profitably spent here in a tour 
of the buildings, shops and grounds. It is one of the 
largest and best-managed institutions of its kind in the 
world, and has an average of 700 inmates, chiefly em- 
ployed in making chairs. 

This is the only city institution that is not only self-sup- 
porting but also a source of revenue, and there are probably 

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few penal institutions of the kind in the world conducted 
on so successful a business basis. During its existence it 
has cared for and maintained about 25,000 prisoners and 
turned over to the city the enormous sum of $290,000. It 
has also kept intact the city's investment of about $200,- 
000, and has added to it, over and above the cash turned 
over, at least $200,000 additional, thus showing a net gain 
to the city, over and above expenses, of about 1500,000. 

From the House of Correction you can easily seethe old 
reservoir of the Water Works, which is only about three 
blocks away. The large brick building about two 
blocks north of the reservoir in the center of a large 
square, is the "Little Sisters' Home for the Aged Poor," 
and nearly a mile away in the same direction, you can see 
the Polish Cathedral, the largest church in the city, and 
near it their theological school, and also a convent. 

A ride of about six miles on the Gratiot road will bring 
you to the Grotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is 
one of the most attractive, and most peculiar, structures 
connected with church life in the country, and was 
erected " in memory of the apparition at Lourdes." 
It is near the Church of the Assumption, and was built 
through the exertions of Rev. Father A. Vandendriessche, 
who has been in charge of the parish since 1851. The grotto 
is located at the end of an avenue of trees nearly 1,000 feet 
long, planted through the same zeal that caused the 
grotto to be reared. The entire cost of the structure 
is estimated at $6,000, though much of the work has 
been gratuitously performed. It was begun by the bless- 
ing of the ground, on the last Sunday of May, 1881, 
and just a year from that time mass was said for the first 
time. 

Within the grotto, ten feet of the walls on either hand 
are occupied by four rows of massive stones, all dressed to 
the square, the face of each stone bearing an emblem of 



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the church or of the Virgin. They are also inscribed 
with the names of various deceased priests. 

On each of the stones in the ceiling will be engraved 
the name of one of the popes, with the date of his death, 
and the name of the donor of the stone. At the base of 
the arch is a narrow projection or cornice of stone, bearing 
on its sides the inscriptions: ''Hail, Mary, full of grace; 
the Lord is with thee;" "Holy Mary, mother of God, 
pray for us sinners," the words being separated by stars. 
On the rear cornice is the word "sanctus " thrice repeated. 
The floor will be of marble. 



This avenue is justly characterized as broad, slow, En- 
glish and self-satisfied. It has a large future before it, but 
develops more slowly than any other of the older avenues 
leading into the country. Although not possessed of any 
specially attractive buildings it is well worthy of atten- 
tion. Three blocks from Woodward avenue on the right is 
the Industrial School, one of the oldest and most deserving 
of the charities of the city. 

A ride of a few blocks brings you to the Cass School and 
the Second Avenue Presbyterian Church, and soon after, 
on the left, the Simpson M. E. Church. Three blocks 
more brings you to the crossing of Trumbull and Lincoln 
avenues, with their numerous and substantial residences. 
The church on the right is the Trumbull Avenue Presby- 
terian, and that on the left on Myrtle street is Epiphany 
Reformed Episcopal Church. 

At Nineteenth street is the D. & B. C. R. R. station, 
and here the street cars stop. Just across the track is the 
extensive factory of the National Pin Company. A mile 
beyond is the 300 acre seed farm of D. M. Ferry & Co., 

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and almost all the year round you may see scores of 
• weeders " and " pickers " at work in these broad fields. 

MicRigai2 oK^eaue, 

This busy, bartering, Celtic, and Jewish avenue is one of 
the greatest thoroughfares in the city. Nothing of special 
note is to be seen until at Trumbull avenue, on the left, is 
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, and also a police station. 

At Thirteenth street, on the right, is St. Boniface Cath- 
olic Church. Soon after, some two blocks away, on the left, 
you will see the Tappan School and the Catholic Church 
and school of St. Vincent de Paul. 

At Seventeenth street, on the right, is Immanuel Luth- 
eran Church. Also, on the left, a few blocks away, the 
cattle yards, the Car Wheel Works and the Bridge and 
Iron Works. Soon after the street car line brings you 
to the Junction, where the trains of the M. C. R. R., the 
L. S. & M. S. and G. T. R. R. transfer passengers or 
baggage. Near here is located the largest car manufactory 
in the United States, the shops of the M. C. R. R., and 
several extensive brick yards. 



(S[rl/cooFil (i)i'reet. 

This is the "Wall Street" of Detroit, and hence will 
claim a visit. Banks, insurance and real estate offices and 
lawyers occupy both sides of the street for several blocks. 

The Postoffice and Custom House is on the northwest 
corner of Griswold and Larned, and the Western Union 
Telegraph office on the southeast corner of Griswold and 
Congress. 

Plalf a block west of Griswold, on Congress, is the office 
of the Evening Journal, and one block west of Griswold, 

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on Lamed, are the offices of the Free Press and Evening 
News. 

Two blocks from Griswold, on Larned, is the headquar- 
ters of the Fire Commission. Two of the steamers are kept 
here, and half an hour or more can be spent very enjoy- 
ably in an inspection of the apparatus. To see the well 
trained horses jump to their places when the gong sounds 
is alone worth the time bestowed. Near State street, on 
the east side of Griswold, is Whitney's Opera House. 



No tour of the city would be complete that did not in- 
clude a trip down West Fort Street. If you start from 
Woodward Avenue, you will soon pass the site of the new 
postoffice on the right at Shelby Street. Old Fort Shelby 
formerly occupied the ground in this locality. 

A.t the corner of Second Street, on the right, is Grace 
Episcopal Church, built of Milwaukee brick. A block 
further on, at the left is the superbly beautiful stone 
church of the Fort Street Presbyterian Society. The 
several blocks on the left beyond Third Street include the 
site of the new Union depot. The large brick building 
on the right between Fourth and Fifth streets is the Sani- 
tarium. 

On and on you go, crossing the bridge over the M. C. 
R. R. near Eleventh street and at Twelfth street on the 
river are the grounds of the Union Depot Co., where all 
trains on the Wabash & St. Louis, Canadian Pacific, Flint 
& Pere Marquette and Detroit, Lansing & Northern Rail- 
roads arrive and depart. At Eighteenth street, you will 
see on the right, the large and imposing convent of the 
Good Shepherd; the two steeples just east of this point 
are those of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church. 

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About eight blocks further, ou the left, are large 
tobacco factories and warehouses, and on the right a little 
further, at Clark avenue is the Riverside Mineral Springs 
and bathing establishment. 

Two blocks beyond Clark avenue on Fort street are the 
spacious grounds and attractive buildings of St. Luke's 
Hospital, and about two miles further, the large and 
attractive grounds of Woodmere Cemetery. 

Turning on Clark avenue toward the river, you take 
the River road, and still in the car, keep on to Fort 
Wayne, a first-class fortification costing nearly half a 
million dollars. Here are cannons and soldiers in abun- 
dance. The fort proper, within which are the barracks, 
lies to the east of the officers' quarters, and is reached by 
a foot bridge crossing over the moat; the magazine is also 
located within the fort. Visitors are welcome to visit any 
part of the fort or grounds except the casemates, which 
are locked ; and you will not be allowed to walk on the 
parapet slopes. The houses on the east side of the fort 
are occupied by the married men and their families. On 
the parade ground, which lies between the officers' quarters 
and the river, stands a saluting battery of light 12- 
pounders, and a little to the left is the morning and even- 
ing gun, which is fired every morning and also at the sun- 
set hour. The grounds embrace sixty-five acres. 

A short distance beyond the Fort are the extensive 
grounds of the Detroit International Exposition, and its 
numerous and enormous buildings will easily attract the 
eye. Several hundred thousand dollars have been ex- 
pended in this enterprise, and it is the most extensive and 
beautifully located local exposition ever provided. It was 
first opened September 17, 1889. 

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<al\ (Carriage ^f\^e. 

The following route will bring before you some of the 
most desirable portions of the city. Up Michigan Ave- 
nue to Washington, around Grand Circus Parks on Ad- 
ams Avenue to Cass Avenue, up Cass to Alexandrine 
Avenue, west on Alexandrine to Second Street, down 
Second, around Cass Park, still on Second to Lafayette 
Avenue, west on Lafayette to Trumbull Avenue, up Trum- 
bull to Grand River Avenue, along Grand River to 
Twelfth Street, up Twelfth to the Boulevard and east and 
south along it to the Bridge and across to Belle Isle Park. 

This Park contains 700 acres and was purchased in 1879 
at a cos t of 1200,000, and over $400,000 additional has 
been expended upon it. An elegant Casino, boat-houses, 
and other needful buildings have been erected, canals exca- 
vated and the low marsh lauds along the edge of the island 
are being transformed into water and driveways. 

The underbrush has also been largely removed, rustic 
bridges erected and a variety of attractions and conven- 
iences provided. The walks and drives are pleasing, and 
the Park carriages for a nominal sum will take you all 
over the island. The boating facilities in the canals are 
exceptional and from any point there are attractive views. 

The passing vessels afford a continually changing scene, 
and altogether the view on a summer day is hardly equalled 
elsewhere. 

There is an abundance of trees of native growth, and in 
the season no more attractive and delightful park can be 
found in this or any other land, and eventually it is pos- 
sibly destined to surpass all other resorts of like nature. 

During 1889 a bridge was completed from the foot of 

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the Boulevard to the island at a cost of 1300,000. It was 
opened to the public on May 12 of that year, is provided 
with a draw, and is a little over 2,000 feet long. Travelers 
on foot or in carriages are amply provided for, and one of 
the most pleasing views in or near the city is the view up 
and down the river from the center of the bridge 

The Boulevard, which at a distance of about three miles 
from the center surrounds the city on three sides, bears an 
important relation to the Park as well as to the city. Its 
inception dates from 1879, and although not fully opened, 
the near future will see it completed, and for all time it 
must prove one of the most attractive driveways in or near 
the city. It is from one hundred and fifty to two hundred 
feet wide, and will be about twelve miles long. 




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^istnvical ^lictch of Detroit 



Sfiircoly twenty •IrcmU'M luivi* )»u^ed since the founding 
of Dt'troit. During nearly all of the:»e years, and up to a 
very recent |)eritKl, the }>ro.sperity of the city wa.s j^reatly 
hindered hy tlie ease-lovin<; and cvtreniely careful spirit 
of its i-arliest founders, and tlieir cautious descendants. 

it was this spirit and t ducaiion that provided tlu' t-arly 
-t reels of only twelve or twenty fret in width, ami that 
rcsisttMl the extension of the city, throu<:h tin- opening' of 
roads and streets across tlu' iiarr<»vv tann- that on either 
sidf hernnuMl in the town. 

This .•qune spirit in latrr owners •.till " s«iks its own," 
liut. tortunatt'ly, it has no loii;^'.r powcito hinder tin- city's 
LTowth and ^'ain. 

In l^<0o, nearly ten decades of years after the founding 
."tthe city, its swaddling Kamls were loosened l»y the fire 
that swept away, not only houses and stores, hut streets as 
well. This most fortuinite event, which is happily coni- 
nu inorated in the emblematic seal of the city, with its 
ninttos of liesurgt'f f 'iftrribu.'*, "she rises from the a^shes," 
and Sjtrnim'f.f Mcliura^ "we ho|)e for hetter time**," gave 
us an entirely new plan for the city, with streets and 
avenues and a < ampus Martins an<l Grand Circus that will 
he an honor to the city, and a j«'V and deliL'ht for a thou- 
sand years and more. 

The French hnbit<m^< jirolested vociferously an<l vigor- 
ously aLMiinst the innovations of the newer plan, declaring 
that the lots ahove the present City Hall would " never be 
built upon, and were only fit for pasturage." Fortunately 
their protest was of no avail. Twenty years later, in 1S2*), 
another great advance was gained, the grounds included in 



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Population of Wayne County 





HAS BEEN AS FOLLOWS : 




1820, 




3,574 


1830, 




6,781 


1840, 




24,173 


18SO, 




42,766 


I860, 




75,647 


1870, 




119,068 


1880, 




166,444 


1890, 




266,838 



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Fort Shelby, with the surrounding military reserve, were 
then relinquished by the United States to the Corporation. 
The lands covered nearly twelve blocks in the very center 
of the city, and the reservation had been a formidable 
obstacle to growth and improvement. The Fort proper 
lay between what is now Fort and Lafayette, Griswold 
and Wayne Streets. 

The grading down of the Fort embankment, the filling 
in at the same time of the low lands along the river, the 
opening of numerous new streets, and the platting and ex- 
posing to sale by the city, at nominal prices, of hundreds of 
the newly acquired lots platted from the old Fort grounds, 
marked a distinct era in the city's life, and afforded the 
largest inducement that had been offered for new citizens. 

During the next decade the population increased over 
four hundred per cent, the emigration from the Eastern 
and New England States was unprecedented, and amounted 
almost to a mania; fleets of steamboats that outnumbered 
those now arriving brought thousands of new comers to 
Detroit and the West, and helped to relieve the town from 
French control, and during the same period the boundary 
of the city was pushed outward on both its eastern and 
western sides. 

During the decades from 1840 to 1860, communication 
was opened with the interior, through various plank roads, 
several railroads were pushed clear across the State, and 
others connected with railroads from the East, giving a 
great impetus to the city's growth. During this same 
period, the territory included within the city was again 
doubled by additions on the east and west. 

The years between 1860 and 1870, covering the period 
of the war with the South, brought great prosperity to 
Detroit. Immense amounts of new capital was created and 
invested in the city, the suburbs were first made accessible 
through the street railways, the architectural ornaraenta- 

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tion of both stores and houses greatly increased, and the 
manufacturing interests of the city grew apace. 

Meantime nearly all the older holders of the larger 
farms within the city, and without in immediate proximity, 
passed away, and as the property has been largely sold and 
divided, the octopus of conservatism that so long held the 
city in its grasp, has released its hold, and the city has 
started forward for a larger place in the front rank with 
leading cities of the continent. 

It is a fact capable of a demonstration, that the West has 
been so largely explored and examined, and the railroad 
routes and sites of cities so fully determined, that no other 
new large city will be located either in the West or 
East. 

The cities already well established with favorable loca- 
tions and facilities will largely gather to themselves the 
growth of the future, and all such cities will increase 
in wealth and population much faster than in former 
years. 

Detroit, with its exceptional opportunities and advan- 
tages, is certain to obtain its full share of the gain result- 
ing from the conditions named, and as a manufacturing 
and residence city it will inevitably take a still more 
advanced position. 

In the way of elegant business and commercial structure 
the city has gained more in the last twenty years than in 
all its past before that time, and the same is true with re- 
gard to the adornment it now enjoys through its hun- 
dreds upon hundreds of elegant residences, more in number 
proportionate to the population than is possessed by any 
other city in America, and when the attractive surround- 
ings are considered, more than are to be found in Phil- 
adelphia or New York. 

The growth in population from time to time is indi- 
cated in the following : 

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Years. 


Population. 


Years. 


Population. 


1796, 


500 


1850, 


21,019 


1810. 


770 


1854, 


40,127 


1812, 


800 


1860. 


45,619 


1817, 


900 


1864, 


53,170 


1819, 


1,110 


1868. 


68,827 


1800. 


1,442 


1870. 


79.577 


1828. 


1,517 


1874, 


101.225 


1830, 


2,222 


1880. 


116,342 


1834, 


4.968 


1884, 


134,834 


1840, 


9,192 


1890. 


205,876 


1845. 


13,065 







The number of families in 1890 was 42,150, and there 
were 65,120 children between the ages of five and twenty 
years. 

The municipal statistics all indicate an unusually well 
managed city government. The Fire Department num- 
bers a force of 261, with 17 steamers, 6 hook and ladder 
companies, three chemical engines and upwards of 250 fire 
alarm boxes. The police force includes 371 persons, with 
11 buildings and nearly 200 signal boxes. 

The Public School buildings number 52, with sittings 
for 25,000 children. The letter carriers number over 100. 
The valuation of personal property in 1891 was $39,423,070, 
of real estate, $136,026,640, a total of $175,450,310. 

With all its other advantages the city is behind no 
others in the number of its churches and charitable insti- 
tutions. For more than two decades an average of five 
new churches have been built each year, and in the vari- 
ous charitable and philanthropic institutions over 1,000,000 
dollars are invested. 

The increasingly appreciated favorable location of the 
city as a place of summer resort, because of its water com- 
munications and its exceptional health record, together 
with its wide reputation as a beautiful residence city, is 
yearly attracting from the interior of Michigan, and also 

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from the far East, scores of persons who come here to enjoy 
the wealth they have secured elsewhere. 

Here we have no fear of a flood or of an overflow, we 
seldom experience the extremes of heat or cold, and a larger 
proportion of citizens live "under their own vine and fig 
tree" than in any other city of the size of Detroit. 

The increase of wealth and leisure in the city is indica- 
ted very clearly in the increased attention paid to athletic 
sports and in the large amounts expended for buildings 
and appliances by the several athletic clubs. 

The greater demand for such instrumentalities arises 
not only from the natural increase in the population, but 
because young men especially are attracted to the cities, 
and in a given number of people a much larger number of 
young men will be found in a city than in a country dis- 
trict. 

A leading and influential factor in the proper develop- 
ment of these desirable societies exists in the thoroughly 
equipped and efficiently officered gymnasium of the Young 
Men's Christian Association. This organization was the 
first to procure the latest and best gymnastic appliances. 

It is also true that other highly creditable athletic or- 
ganizations exist. Of these the Detroit Athletic Club is 
the oldest. Its building, located on the west side of Wood- 
ward Avenue, just above Canfield avenue, with its appur- 
tenances, cost 130,000. 

A newer but none the less popular and valuable organ- 
ization, the Michigan Athletic Club, has its building on 
the corner of Congress Street and Elm wood Avenue, where 
it owns fully a block of land, its entire property represent- 
ing a value of 165,000, the building and apparatus costing 
$31,000. 

The opportunities for recreation at Detroit are not con- 
fined to those on land. Within easy reach of the city, at 
the upper end of Lake St. Clair, there is one of the most 

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noted of hunting and fishing grounds. The marshy waters 
in the season are the feeding places of myriads of ducks, 
and the waters are equally thronged with fish of many de- 
sirable kinds. The rare opportunities here offered have 
caused the establishment of several fishing and shooting 
clubs and a number of extensive club houses have been 
located along the lake and on the higher grounds, and 
several individuals have erected fishing cottages and to 
the profit of their health spend days together in semi-iso- 
lation from the cares of life. The most prominent clubs 
making use of the facilities here afforded are the Lake St. 
Clair Fishing and Shooting Club, the North Channel 
Shooting Club, the Detroit Hunting and Fishing Associa- 
tion, and the Michigan Gun Club. 

Although possessing exceptional facilities for boating, 
there has been little popular enthusiasm for this sport for 
some years past. The American people as a whole sel- 
dom think about or engage in more than one thing at a 
time, and of late our mind has been on land sports instead 
of those upon the water, but in due time the pendulum of 
fashion will again swing over the water, and boat clubs 
will be "all the go" and "on the go" on one of the finest 
stretches of water to be found in all the world. 

A most interesting increase in the attention paid to art 
has been developed since 1870, and a large share of the 
growth may be properly traced to the Art Loan Exhibition 
held in 1883. 

The principal ocular outgrowth of that exhibition is 
the building of the Detroit Museum of Art, located on the 
corner of Jefferson Avenue and Hastings Street. The lot, 
costing $25,000, was donated by citizens interested in art, 
and a fund of $100,000 for the building was raised by 
popular subscription. An Art Academy has been estab- 
lished, a number of classes for the study of various 
branches of art and courses of lectures provided, and an 

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excellent equipment exists in a large number of valuable 
paintings and models belonging to the Museum. 

That there is marked interest in musical matters is evi- 
dent to any one who pays any heed to what may be seen 
daily and almost hourly on any street. You can scarce 
enter a street car without encountering one or more lads 
or misses with music roll or violin case. The rising gen- 
eration is paying vastly more attention to music than was 
paid two decades ago, or even ten years ago. 

Several thoroughly equipped schools or conservatories, 
with from one to a number of hundreds of pupils, have 
grown up, and these, with a large corps of teachers, are 
doing excellent work in giving instruction in both vocal 
and instrumental music. 

General statistics as to the amount and value of manu- 
factured products in almost any period, or gathered through 
any instrumentality, are of comparatively little value. If 
a firm or corporation have special advantages that some 
one would perhaps copy if attention was called to them, 
their success is not likely to be noised abroad. Many man- 
ufacturing institutions owe their prosperity to the "still 
hunt" method of calling attention to their wares rather 
than to the amount of business that they are doing. If it 
becomes apparent that any person is doing much better 
than the average, there are a hundred persons who wish to 
obtain a share of the profits by engaging in the same busi- 
ness. For these reasons the figures obtained are often 
incomplete, inaccurate or misleading. 

If, on the contrary, the business of a firm or corporation 
is not remunerative, tliere is a natural temptation to increase 
the credit or business standing by overestimates or the 
giving of prospective conditions rather than present facts. 
All estimates, therefore, of this nature are liable to be either 
overestimated or underestimated, and are of necessity 
followed by an interrogation point; if this mark is not 

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always printed its exists in the mind of those who look be- 
neath the words or figures and is supplied as needed. 

Some facts, however, are patent even to a casual observer. 
When the eye sees large and wide-spreading factories 
where it is known that formerly no building existed, 
observes volumes of smoke pouring from numerous chim- 
neys, hears the hum and hammer of machinery, and from 
time to time notices hundreds of workers going in or 
coming out of a building, it is ocularly and aurally demon- 
strated that a large amount of work is being performed. 
If further demonstration is desired, the loaded trucks or 
cars that leave the premises will often supply the evidence. 

Judged by these positive standards the general prosperity 
of an establishment may be fairly predicated, and there are 
many such in Detroit. There are twenty-one banks, and 
they have all told about $10,000,000 of capital. 



This is located on the southeast corner of Jefferson 
Avenue and Griswold Street. 

The members of the board protect each other by agree- 
ing upon a uniform scale of fees or commissions for buy- 
ing or selling grain and produce. In the delivering of 
grain, the transfer of a receipt from one of the railroad 
elevators, specifying that the grain is in store and giving 
the number of bushels, is accepted as an actual delivery. 
From February 25, 1879, an initiation fee of $250 was 
required from all new members, and on March 4, 1882, it 
was voted to raise the fee to $500 as soon as one hundred 
members were obtained. 

There are now about one hundred members. Persons 
seeking admission as members must be of legal age, resid- 
ents of the city or having a permanent business therein, or 

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Mark these Remarkable Facts and Figures 



The Ainounis on Deposit Januaiy 1st 
Each Year 



Wayne County Savings Bank 





HAVE BEEN 


AS FO 


1«*T2. 


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1»«4. 


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1 llJ.l«'f. 90 


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1K86. 


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8.771.147 IH) 

3.W2AV.t 8-1 

4.811.173 »<t 

4.«»0.817 53 

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s I A liKlt_iSITt>K. 

Tlu' p«»pu!fttiun of I>.'tn>it in 1^74 was lOl.^viTi ami llie (leix>»its in th»» 
\Vftyn«« County Itoiik nn January Ist t>f that ytvir sIiow»h1 an av»M-a>f»* of $7 
for •'vi-ry |K*rs<>n. 

Th<' |H>|)ulati<in in INMO waM 116.842. and th<> deiHwitM on Jnnuary 1st of 
tliat v.-ar !<li.)w.'«l an av.'ra>j«' of ov.-r *ir> for t-ach jierson. 

fl«' |H.iiuijUioii in I'^mi «H.s aitt.'C'i. ami tii»» (l»'|M.sits on January Ut of 
iliat v.-ar sfiowcl an iiv.tjik'.' of ov.t ?-JJ for •'arh iKTS4»n in Di-troit 

('oiniMinukr tin- iK.|iulation of the City witii tlu* nuinl»«'r of (i»'|»o8itor8 in 
1H74 oiif i^THon ill ••vfry "iJ was a tl»»|Misitor in this l>ank. in 1><80 one jwrson 
in ••v.«rv 1«. and in 18W"on»' i»frson in «'v»'ry "JO. 

It is a wf 11 known fart that <l.'i>ositors in .sjivinjcs l)anks» an* the most 
Hteatlfnst of clients or rustouu'rs. and ke.i.injf this fact in view, theadvan- 
tajfes resulting' to de|>ositors an' rlearlv shown in the fact that the avera^'e 
amount to the iTe«lit of i-ach dejxisitor in the Wayne County Savings Bank 
Ml lt74 wius 5-i«. in 1880. %'^a. and in \m\ $458. 

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be members of a similar commercial organization in some 
other city. Their application must be indorsed by two 
members of the board, and after five days' notice, seven 
affirmative votes by the directors will elect them to mem- 
bership. The business acts of every member are subject 
to investigation by the Board of Directors, if called in 
question by any other member. 

The annual meeting is held on the first Tuesday in 
March, and the term of office begins on the Tuesday fol- 
lowing. A president, first and second vice-presidents, and 
eight directors are elected yearly, who control the affairs 
of the organization, appoint the secretary, treasurer, and 
inspectors, and hold regular meetings on the second Tues- 
day of each month. At each annual meeting they report 
the amount to be assessed upon each member the succeeding 
year. The revenue of the board is derived principally 
from the inspection of grain, at twenty-five cents per car 
load, and from dues of members. 



The estimates of taxes, as submitted by the Controller, 
are required to be adopted by the Common Council before 
April 5 of each year, and must be submitted to the Board 
of Estimates in time to be confirmed by the Council before 
April 15. While the members of the Council are consider- 
ing the estimates, the Board of Assessors have been com- 
pleting their valuation of the property to be taxed ; and, 
at least two weeks before April 1, they are required to give 
notice that they will sit until April 5 to hear complaints 
and make corrections in the valuations. After this has 
been done, on or before the third Tuesday of April, they 
send the completed tax roll to the Board, of Aldermen, 
and within a week thereafter the board of Aldermen begin 

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to hold sessions as a Board of Review to hear complaints, 
and, if necessary, to correct the rolls. Their sessions con- 
tinue not over sixteen days, after which, about the middle 
of May, the rolls are confirmed. The assessors then com- 
pute the amount of taxes payable on each valuation con- 
tained on the rolls, and taxes may be paid during the 
month of July without percentage. Since the law of 1879, 
if the clerks in office are so busy that they cannot receive 
all taxes- offered, lists of property, with names of owners, 
may be handed in on or before July 25, and the parties can 
have until August 10 to pay the amounts, if there is no 
opportunity of paying sooner. On the first of August, in- 
terest, at the rate of one per cent, a month, is added for 
July, and at the same rate the first of each month until 
the first of January, unless the tax is paid. If not paid by 
the first of January, the six per cent, that has accrued is 
added to the original tax, and interest is charged at the 
rate often per cent, per annum until the tax is paid. If 
not paid by the first of February, the Receiver of Taxes 
is authorized to advertise the property for sale ; but as it 
takes some time to prepare them, the lists are usually not 
printed until about May 1, when the property is advertised 
for sale for four successive weeks. After this the cost of 
advertising, amounting to about fifty cents, is added, and 
interest continues to be reckoned at the rate of ten per 
cent, per annum. If the tax is not paid the property is sold 
about June 1, the exact day being discretionary wdth the 
Receiver of Taxes. The sale indicates only that the pur- 
chaser is entitled to the use of the property purchased for 
the number of years agreed upon at time of sale ; but if 
the owner neglects to redeem it, the sale is confirmed by a 
regular transfer of the title by the city. Records of sales 
are filed in the City Treasurer's office. The property can 
be redeemed at any time within one year after sale, by pay- 
ing the amount due at the time of sale and interest at the 

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rate of ten per cent, per annum. Soon after the sale 
a list of all property on which the taxes have not been 
paid, nor cancelled by sales, is furnished by the Receiver 
to the City Treasurer, to be thereafter collected througli 
him. 

At the annual sale, unless some private person bids the 
amount of the tax, all lands on which taxes are unpaid are 
sold to the city, and the amounts received for back taxes 
in the Treasurer's office are credited as receipts from "City 
Bids." 

Taxes or assessments for the building of sidewalks and 
sewers, or for paving of streets, are kept entirely distinct 
from the regular city taxes, and are payable within thirty 
days from the time the rolls are placed in hands of Re- 
ceiver. If not paid paid within thirty days, the Receiver 
of Taxes can, at his discretion, advertise for sale the prop- 
erty on which these taxes are levied. 



Under the tax law of March 14, 1882, and Act of June 
6, 1883, the State and County taxes for each current year 
become a lien on the property on December 1, and one 
per cent, on the amount, is allowed the township treasurers 
for collecting the same. After January 1 four per cent, is 
allowed the township treasurers. Within the city of De- 
troit the taxes are payable to the county treasurer up to 
December 16 without any percentage. If not paid by 
December iQ, four per cent, is added to the amount of the 
original tax, which must be paid by the first of February, 
unless the time is extended by the Common Councilor the 
Township Board ; but not over one month of additional 
time can be granted. If not paid by the first of March, 
two per cent, additional is added, and then one per cent. 

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a month up to June 1, and if not then paid, a further sum 
of twenty per cent, per year is charged until paid. 

On the first of March a list of all lauds on which the 
taxes are unpaid is forwarded by the county treasurer to 
the auditor-general, and if the taxes remain unpaid one 
year or more after the fir.-^t of July, the lands are then sold 
on the first of May in the next year. The sale is made by 
the county treasurer, who, within twenty days after the 
sale, must file with the clerk of the Circuit Court a list of 
the lands sold, and unless objection is made, within eight 
days thereafter the sale is confirmed. At any time within 
one year thereafter the court can set aside the sale, upon 
such terms as are deemed just ; but no sale can be set aside 
after the purchaser or his assignee has been in possession 
for five years. 



^ouitQ ancj #tore riumSei';^. 

The regulations provide one number for every twenty 
feet, the numbers alternating from one side of the street to 
the other. On all streets running nearly north and south, 
or at right angles to the river and parallel with Woodward 
Avenue, the numbers begin at the south end of the street, 
or the end nearest the river, and number towards the city 
limits ; and when the streets do not extend through to the 
river, the numbers begin at their southerly end, near some 
one of the principal avenues, — Jefferson, Michigan, Grand 
River, or Gratiot. Going from the river, the odd num- 
bers, as 1, 3, 5, and 7, are on the left hand, and the even 
numbers, as 2, 4, 6, and 8, on the right hand side of the 
street. On all streets east of Woodward Avenue, and run- 
ning nearly east and west, or at right angles with Wood- 
ward Avenue and parallel with the river, the numbers be- 
gin at Woodward Avenue, or the end nearest to |it, and 

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Dumber outwards towards the city limits, the odd numbers 
on the north or left hand side going from Woodward Ave- 
nue, and the even numbers on the south side of the atreet. 
On all str/4ets west of Woodward Avenue, and running 
nearly east and west or at right angles with Woodward 
Avenue and parallel with the river, the numbers begin at 
Woodward Avenue, or the end nearest it, and number 
outwards towards the city limits ; the odd numbers being 
on the south or left-hand side of the street, and the even 
numbers on the north side of the street. The only excep- 
tion to this rule is in the case of Jefferson Avenue, where 
the numbers begin at Second Street and run east, the odd 
numbers being on the north side of the street, and on 
Madison Avenue, where the even numbers are on the south 
side. There is an average of about forty numbers to a 
block, including those on both sides of the street. 



^treet S^aifroael/, 

The routes of the several lines are as follows : Jefferson 
Avenue — from Third up Jefferson Avenue to City Water 
Works. 

The Woodward Avenue Line extends from Brush on 
Atwater to Woodward Avenue and up this avenue to the 
railroad crossing. 

The Cass Avenue and Third Street Line extends from 
Jefferson Avenue up Third to Larned, on Lamed to Gris- 
wold, up Griswold to State, around State to Cass Avenue, 
up Cass to Ledyard, on Ledyard to Third, up Third 
to the Holden Road, and along the Holden Road to the 
railroad crossing. Cars also run from the Michigan Cen- 
tral Depot up Third to Grand River, and transfer passen- 
gers to either the Grand River, Myrtle or Crawford 
Street Lines. 

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«W K.iRT St. Ka^t. 



The Michigan Avenue Line is operated from Jefferson 
Avenue up Woodward Avenue to Michigan Avenue, and 
on Michigan Avenue to the Grand Trunk Junction. 

The Gratiot Avenue Line extends from Jefferson Ave- 
nue up Woodward Avenue to Monroe Avenue, on Monroe 
Avenue to Randolph, on Randolph to Gratiot Avenue, 
and up Gratiot Avenue to Mt. Elliott Avenue. 

Some cars, designated as Cross Town cars, go over the 
entire route of Gratiot and Michigan Avenue Lines for a 
single fare. 

The Chene Street Cars run from foot of Woodward up 
to. Monroe Avenue, and thence through Randolph to Gra- 
tiot, and up Gratiot to Chene Street, and north on Chene 
to the Boulevard. A line from Gratiot south on Chene 
to Atwater, and east on Atwater to Joseph Campau is 
operated part of the time. 

The Crawford Street Line runs from Grand River north 
on Crawford to the railroad crossing. 

The Congress and Baker Street Line runs from Atwater 
up Randolph to Congress, on Congress to Seventh, up Sev- 
enth to Baker, and on Baker to Twenty-fourth Street, and 
every other car goes through Twenty-fourth street to Dix 
Avenue, and on Dix Avenue to the railroad crossing. 

The Brush Street Line runs on the Gratiot Avenue 
route to Brush, up Brush to Ohio, along Ohio to St. An- 
toine, up St. Antoine to Farnsworth, along Farnsworth to 
Russell, up Russell to Ferry Avenue, along Ferry to De- 
quindre. Some cars run on Russell from Ferry Avenue to 
the railroad crossing. 

The Trumbull Avenue Line runs on Michigan Avenue 
to Trumbull Avenue, and on Trumbull to the railroad 
crossing. 

The East Fort Street Line runs from Woodward Ave- 
nue east on Congress to Mt. Elliott Avenue, north on Mt. 

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TIIK .I<»MN HK«>WN IKH'SE. 
IHB C'»>s«RKHK St. Kaht. 



Elliott to Fort, aud west on Fort to Brush, on Brusli to 
Congress, and thence to Woodward Avenue. 

Cars also run from Woodward Avenue through Congress, 
and on Mt. Elliott to Jefferson Avenue, and on Jefferson 
Avenue to the Belle Isle Bridge. 

The Fort Street and Elmwood Line extends from Wood- 
mere Cemetery southeast along the Dearborn Road to the 
River Road, thence along the River Road to Clark Ave- 
nue, up Clark Avenue to Fort, on Fort to Woodward Ave- 
nue, across Woodward and through Cadillac Square to 
Bates, up Bates to Champlaiu, through Champlain to 
Helen, and south on Helen to Jefferson Avenue. Return- 
ing, cars come back on same route to Elmwood Avenue, 
and then go north on Elmwood to Monroe, and on Monroe 
to Randolph, and along Randolph to Cadillac Square, and 
from there cross Woodward Avenue to Fort. 

The Highland Park Railway Company operate an 
electric railway, three miles long, on Woodward Avenue, 
commencing just beyond the railroad crossing. The fare 
is five cents, and, by arrangement with the city railway, 
eight cents will pay the fare on both the electric and the 
Woodward Avenue Lines. 

The East Detroit and Grosse Point Railway runs from 
Gratiot Avenue on Mack Avenue to Baldwin Avenue. 

The Myrtle Street Line runs from Twenty-fourth Street 
through Myrtle Street to Grand River Avenue, and then 
en route of Grand River Avenue Railway to Jefferson 
Avenue. 

The Grand River Avenue Line runs from Jefferson 
Avenue, up Woodward Avenue to Grand River Avenue, 
and on Grand River Avenue to Boulevard. 

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MM MKiAN « KNTKAL K.\II.I«'.M> HKl'oT 



S^cft "bine S^aifroac^. 

This Line extends all around the outskirts of the city, 
from the M. C. R. R. depot to the junction of Jefferson 
and Beaufait Avenues. Trains run at frequent and regu- 
lar intervals and stop at the following places: 

Twentieth Street, Bay City Junction, Michigan Avenue, 
Vinewood Avenue, Twenty-seventh Street, Twenty-fourth 
Street, Grand River Avenue, Twelfth Street, Tlolden 
Road, Woodward Avenue, Peninsular Switch, Milwaukee 
Avenue and Hastings Street, Russell Street, Milwaukee 
Junction, Belt Line Junction, Chene Street, Harper Ave- 
nue, Boulevard, Gratiot Avenue, Mack Road, Waterloo 
Street, Champlain Street, Beaufait Station. 

The fare is ten cents; twenty-ride tickets one dollar; five- 
ride tickets twenty-five cents. 



URe iJerriejl). 

Ferries run from the foot of Woodward Avenue to 
Bdle Isle and also to Windsor every fifteen minutes, and 
from the foot of Joseph Campau Avenue to Belle Isle and 
also to Walkerville every thirty minutes. 



#feam6oat Isiae/I), 

There are passenger lines to various points as follows : 

From Dock foot of Randolph Street to Chatham and 
New Baltimore. 

From Dock foot of Griswold Street to Club Houses, 
Star Island, Grande Pointe, Algonac, Marine City, The 
Oakland, St. Clair, Sarnia, Port Huron and intermediate 
ports. 

From Dock between Griswold and Shelby Streets, east 

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to Cleveland, Erie and Buffalo, north to Port Huron, 
Sault Ste. Marie, Marquette, Houghton, Hancock, Por- 
tage Lake, Ashland, Washburn, Bayfield and Duluth. 

From Dock foot of Shelby Street to Port Huron. 

From Dock foot of First Street east to Cleveland, and 
north to Port Huron, Sand Beach, Oscoda, Harris ville, 
Alpena, Rogers City, Cheboygan, Mackinaw and St. 
Ignace. Also to Put-in-Bay, Kelly's Islands and San- 
dusky. Also to Ecorce, Wyandotte, Grosse Isle, Trenton, 
Amherstburg and Sugar Island. 



^atetb of J-faeft iJare. 
Authoi'ized by City Ordinance. 

The drivers or owners of public conveyances may de- 
mand and receive for conveying passengers the following 
rates or prices of fare, and no more, to wit: 

For carrying a passenger from one place to another, 
within the limits of said city, fifty cents. Children, under 
ten years of age, not exceeding two in number, when ac- 
companied by parents or guardians, shall be carried free of 
charge. Those in excess of that number shall each be 
charged half fare. 

For the use of any public conveyance by the hour, for 
not more than four persons, and with the privilege of going 
from place to place, and stopping as often as required, one 
dollar and fifty cents per hour for the first hour, and 
one dollar for each additional hour ; and for fractional 
hours at the rate of one dollar per hour ; and for each 
additional passenger twenty -five cents per hour. For 
the use by the day of such conveyance, five dollars. For 
each trunk, fifteen cents; but no charge shall be made 
for any bag, valise or bundle weighing less than fifty 
pounds. 

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I'«'I.I(K HKAltgl AHTKHS. 



MESSENGER SERVICE. 

This Company furnishes reliable boys for errands or ser- 
vice of any sort at twenty-five cents an hour. The office 
is on Griswold Street between Jefferson Avenue and Lar- 
ned Street. 

Both the American and United States Express Ofiices 
are located on the east side of Woodward Avenue between 
Larned and Congress Streets. The National Express 
Company is at No. 6 Monroe Avenue. 



©IcfegrapR ©fflce<i). 

Telegraph offices are located on the southeast corner of 
Griswold and Congress Streets and on the west side of 
Griswold Street near Jefferson Avenue. 



J^aifroail ©epotil), 

Michigan Central, Detroit, Lansing & Northern and 
Flint & Pere Marquette Railroads, foot of Third Street. 
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee, Grand Trunk and 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, foot of Brush Street. 

Wabash & St. Louis Railroad, foot of Twelfth Street. 



The four leading hotels are the Russell House, facing 
the Campus Martins, the Cadillac on Michigan Avenue 
between Rowland Street and Washington Avenue, the 

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MiNun-Ai. ^'""o nriLi'iN". 



Wayne opposite the Michigan Central Railroad depot 
and the Normandie on Congress Street just east of Wood- 
ward Avenue. 

TsuacR S^oorQ)l>, 

The leading lunch rooms, that are entirely free from liquor 
serving, are Crawford's Dairy Lunch, on east side of 
Woodward Avenue, between Congress and Lamed Streets, 
the Women's Exchange rooms in the Y. M. C. A. build- 
ing, corner of Grand River and Griswold, and the Delica- 
tessen, on Gratiot Avenue, half a block from Woodward 
Avenue. 

©pera ^ou/^e/i> aai. pu6Fic cKafF/l). 

Whitney's Opera House, Griswold near State Street. 

Detroit Opera House, facing Campus Martius. 

Lyceum Theatre, Randolph Street, between Monroe 
Avenue and Champlain Street. 

Philharmonic Hall, corner Lafayette Avenue and Shelby 
Street. 

Detroit Rink, Larned Street between Bates and Ran- 
dolph Streets. 

Merrill Hall, corner of Jefferson and Woodward Ave- 
nues. 

Princess Rink, Second Avenue, corner of High Street. 

Y. M. C. A. Building, corner of Grand River and Gris- 
wold Streets. 

Art Museum, corner Jefferson avenue and Rivard Street. 

London has its Thames, Paris the Seine, Rome the Tiber, 
and New York the Hudson; but in everything the Detroit 
river excels them all, and is undoubtedly one of the most 

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remarkable in the world. It forms a natural boundary 
between the United States and Upper Canada, separating 
the State of Michigan from the Province of Ontario; the 
boundary line opposite Detroit is about midway of the 
stream, and for most of the distance nearest the Canadian 
shore. The United States thus has jurisdiction over the 
larger portion. The greatest width of the river is three 
miles; in its narrowest point, opposite the city, it is a little 
over half a mile wide. Its average width is one mile. 
The depth varies from ten to sixty feet, with an average 
of thirty-four feet. The river bottom, for the most part, 
is sandy or stony. It is navigable for vessels of the largest 
class, is almost entirely free from obstructions of any sort, 
and offers one of the largest and safest harbors in the world. 
London is the largest port, but more tonnage passes Detroit 
than ever enters the Thames. There are but few streams 
in the world that rival the Detroit in purity and in 
amount of water discharged. The incline amounts to one 
and one-half inches per mile, or three feet for its entire 
length. The elevation above sea level, at a point opposite 
the Marine Hospital, is five hundred and seventy-seven 
feet. The river is not generally frozen over until the lat- 
ter part of December or January, but in extreme cold 
weather the ice is from twelve to twenty inches thick. If 
you have leisure, a trip on one of the excursion or regular 
line of boats constantly plying up and down, cannot fail to 
give you abundant satisfaction. Scattered through the 
whole course of the stream are numerous islands, from one 
to several thousand acres in extent. Their number will 
average one a mile for the entire length of the river; and 
for beauty of scenery it is second only to the St. Lawrence. 

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ReigRSorlag (3\t\ei> anil 'i^eibortii>. 

Several days could be agreeably disposed of among the 
regions round about Detroit. 

A ride of little more than an hour on the Michigan 
Central, westward, will take you to the beautiful city of 
Ypsilanti where the State Normal School is located; and 
less than two hours on the same route will land you at Ann 
Arbor, w^here hours maybe spent examining the treasures 
of the University. 

In both these cities the hard, smooth roads over hill 
and moor, along the winding river through lovely scenery 
will tempt to drives in almost every direction. 

Going northwards by the Detroit & Milwaukee Rail- 
road, an hour's ride will take you to Pontiac, the 
center of one of the most magnificent farming regions in 
the Union. Here one of the State Insane Asylums is 
located. A delightful drive of five miles will bring you 
to Orchard Lake, a most charming summer resort. A 
first-class hotel, excellent boating and fishing opportunities, 
delightful drives, and a Military School for boys, are 
among its attractions. 

Two days or more could profitably be given to Put-in- 
Bay and vicinity, with its beautiful islands, lovely scenery 
and memorable localities in connection with Perry's vic- 
tory. Perry's Cave is beautiful with stalactites and crys- 
tals of various forms. It is reached by a broad stairway, 
has an average height of six feet, and is 200 feet long by 
about 150 feet in width. Here also are fine fishing grounds, 
with plenty of boats and bait; and in season grapes are 
very abundant and cheap. It has all the usual accom- 
paniments of a first-class watering place, including good 
hotel accommodations. 

One day, or several, at the Star Island House would af- 
ford health and pleasure in abundance. Going up the 



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river, you stop on a little island at the termination of the St. 
Clair Flats Canal, and here, at moderate rates, you can 
fish, hunt and boat to your heart's content. 

Taking a steamer from Star Island and passing through 
Lake and River St. Clair, you will have a view of river 
scenery that will be fully satisfying. 

''The Oakland," a noted hotel near St. Clair, is a favor- 
ite stopping place. 

Returning to Detroit by the Grand Trunk Railroad and 
stopping at the village of Mt. Clemens, you may gain 
health by the use of the water at the Magnetic Springs. 
There is unquestionable evidence of remarkable cures from 
the use of this water. A pleasant day can be spent in a 
trip to Chatham, Canada, which you reach by way of Lake 
St. Clair and the picturesque River Thames. 

An exceedingly attractive resort, known as The Metta- 
was Hotel, is reached by the Lake Erie, Essex & Detroit 
River Railroad, running from Walkerville, opposite De- 
troit, to the coast of Lake Erie, opposite Pelee Island, a 
distance of only thirty miles from Detroit. Investigation 
will amply demonstrate its claim to extraordinary attrac- 
tions as a summer resort. 

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©Y^ayne ©ouafij ^^^''^g^ S^arijC. 



This Bank was organized October 2, 1871, under the 
General State Law. The original capital was $30,000; in 
September, 1875, it was increased to $150,000. Its first 
officers and trustees were: W. B. Wesson, President; H. 
Kiefer, Vice-President ; S. D. Elwood, Secretary and 
Treasurer; W. A. Moore, Attorney, J. J. Bagley, J. Croul, 
J. B. Sutherland, J. Wiley, M. S. Smith, S. G. Wight, 
D. M. Ferry, Paul Gies, L. P. Knight, Traugott Schmidt, 
D. M. Richardson, W. C. Duncan, T. W. Palmer, F. 
Adams, K. C. Barker, G. F. Bagley, J. S. Farrand, and 
D. Knapp. 

The Bank was established at No. 101 Griswold Street, 
on the northwest corner of Congress Street, but within two 
years these premises became too small; and as no suitable 
offices could be rented, the Directors, in September, 1875, 
increased the capital to 1150,000, and decided to erect a 
building for the use of the Bank. The lot, 50x132 feet in 
size, on Congress Street West, just in the rear of their first 
location, was procured, and a building erected at a total 
cost of $110,000. It is known as Nos. 32 and 34 Congress 
Street West, and was first occupied on December 15, 1876. 

There is only one other Bank in Detroit that owns its 
bank building, and that the Directors made a judicious and 
economical investment is evidenced in the fact that the 
Bank has not only been amply accommodated at a cost of 
several thousand dollars a year less than poorer facilities 
would have cost, but the property has increased in value 
nearly $50,000 over the original investment. 

W. B. Wesson served as President until his death, and 
S. D. Elwood, who had been continuously Secretary and 
Treasurer, then became President. Jacob S. Farrand, 
who had served many years as Vice-President, after his 
death in 1891, was succeeded by D. M. Ferry. 

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This compauy is connected with the Wayne County 
Savings Bank, and has its offices and vaults in the same 
building. It was organized in 1872, with a capital of 
$80,000. 

The first officers were W. B. Wesson, President; Jerome 
Croul, Vice-President ; S. D. Elwood, Secretary and 
Treasurer; William A. Moore, Attorney; John Collins, in 
charge of vaults ; and, although nearly twenty years have 
elapsed, the officers have remained unchanged, except that 
Mr. Wesson has passed away. 

It may accept and execute any trust created by an in- 
strument in writing which appoints it as trustee, and 
receives from any individual or corporation, on deposit, 
for safe keeping and storage, gold and silver plate, jewelry, 
money, stock securities, and other valuable papers or per- 
sonal property. The corporation may also become secur- 
ity for administrators, guardians, trustees or persons, in 
cases where, by law or otherwise, one or more sureties are 
required, at such rate of compensation and upon such 
terms and conditions as shall be established by the direc- 
tors. 

Terms Per Year of Special Deposits. 

Government and other coupon securities, 
or those transferable by delivery, includ- 
ing bank bills. 

Government and all other securities, not } 
transferable by delivery, f 

Gold coin or bullion. 

Silver coin or bullion, 

Silver or gold plate, under seal, on owner's 
estimate of full value, and rate subject to 
adjustment for bulk, on a basis of 

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Jewelry and precious stones, $2 50 per $1,000 

Deeds, mortgages.valuable papers generally, ) 1 00 a year each, or 

when of no fixed value, ) according to bulk. 

Wills for life, $5 00; per year, $1 00 

Safes inside the tire and burglar proof vaults can be rented at 
$10 to $75 per year. 

Collection and remittance of interest or dividends, on bonds or 
stocks, 1 per cent, on amount collected. 

For collection of other income and management of property, 
special rates. 

No charo;e less than one dollar. 



The vaults, four in number, occupy a portion of the 
first floor in the fire-proof Wayne County Savings Bank 
building, and are entirely independent of main walls of 
same, with ample passageway all around for the night and 
day patrol. 

In their construction, no expense was spared to make 
them as positively fire and burglar proof as money and 
the skill and ingenuity of the best manufacturers and 
mechanics could erect. 

The foundation is solid masonry and concrete. The 
walls of the vaults are five feet thick, built of best quality 
brick, laid in cement, and every course tied with strips of 
iron. 

The brick walls are lined inside with railroad iron, each 
rail being securely fastened with strong screws. Inside 
the rail the vaults are lined with alternate layers of steel 
and iron, three inches in thickness, fastened by conical 
bolts, with heavy nuts inside. The steel plates are so pre- 
pared that they are positively drill proof, retaining tough- 
ness and ductility that render them equal proof against 
the sledge and wedge. The steel plates are bent at right 
angles, securely binding the corners. The vault doors are 
secured by Sargent's combination and chronometer locks. 

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H ISTORY 



DETROIT AND MICHIGAN 

By SILAS FARMER, 

HISTORIOGRAPHER OF THE CITY OF DETROIT. 

(By Appointment under Ordinance of 1813.) 

Membei' of American Historical Association, Webster Historical Society, 
Michigan Pioneer Society, etc. 



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can take its place 

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was spared in its preparation, and it unfolds a large amount of 
authentic and surprising information hitherto unpublished and 
unknown. 

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From the Army and Navy Register, Washington. 

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From Chicago Legal News. 

* * * "The style of Mr. Farmer is pleasing, concise and 
accurate, all necessary requisites for a historian. The chapters 
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the "Supreme Courts of the Territory," show phases of legal 
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every library in the United States." 

Farmer's " Detroit." From the Critic, New York. 

" It would be well if every growing city would appoint an 
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' purely honorary.' The result was that, as usual, they got as 
much as they gave. At length, however, ,witli better fortune 
thau this parsimony deserved, the office fell to a public-spirited 
holder, Mr. Silas Farmer, who has performed its duties as well as 
if it had been accompanied by a salary — and possibly better. In 
a handsome octavo volume of a thousand pages he has given us a 
" History of Detroit and Michigan." * * The contents of the 
volume comprise everything that the history of an American 
city should be expected to contain, and the work may well be 
taken as a model by other civil historians." * * 

Boston Evening l^ranscript. 

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history of its earlier years, what a treasure would they have * * 

" The local information in this book is simply immense, and the 
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" The position which Detroit held to the great Northwest of a 
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studying the formation of the western cities and States, and the 
growth of the laws peculiar to their respective localities. It has 
much unpublished and fresh information. * * 

" The history of Detroit will never have to be written a second 
time." 

Harper's Magazine, June, 1887, 

" Since our national centennial, especial attention has been given 
by many writers in different parts of the country to the develop- 
ment of local history, and their researches have led to numerous 
publications of more or less value according to the temper and 

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industry of the writers. Among the most important as well as 
the most interesting of these publications is the superb volume 
prepared by Silas Farmer, entitled The History of Detroit and 
Michigan. The author has brought to his subject not only a 
mind of rare intelligence, but a soul in love with the Queen 
City of the Straits. We have here the residt of many years' 
patient, diligent, and painstaking industry; and this is not more 
admirable than the taste and judgment which have shaped 
the materials drawn from so many sources into a harmonious 
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a continent.' Only here can be found any adequate view of the 
early history of Michigan. * * The completeness of the work 
is astonishing. The author has not only exhausted the rich 
materials to be found in published works; he has gathered much 
that is interesting from an extensive personal correspondence 
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materials; he has not only utilized numerous old French letters, 
documents, and manuscripts, but has instituted special inquiries 
in France, especially in connection with the career of Cadillac; 
and he has ransacked not only all the documentary reports and 
correspondence bearing upon his subject, but also the old files of 
local newspapers in various parts of the country. * * It need 
not be said that such a work is not only a history but a cyclopae- 
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be said of no fact relating to the subject to be found in any 
other work, that is not found here, and it contains a rich store of 
material that cannot be found elsewhere. Every writer upon the 
subject, since Mr. Farmer's book was published, not only could 
find here everything he might wish to know, but, if he would be 
assured of accuracy as to details and dates he must consult this 
book. * * A work that must stand forever as the most com- 
plete book of reference on all matters concerning the early history 
of Detroit and Michigan." 



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31 Monroe Avenue, 

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CEMETERY MAPS 

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PUBLISHED BY 

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Detroit are now obliterated, and tbere is no full record of the lot 
owners in any one of them, nor any record to show who was 
buried therein. 

In the official registry of lot owners in some cemeteries of the 
present day, the names of lot owners are often misspelled, fre- 
quently no surname is given, the locations of the lots as given 
therein do not always agree with the location given in the deed, 
and in more than one instance the records themselves have been 
stolen or mutilated. 

Some lots in certain cemeteries now have a value of several 
thousand dollars, and yet there is no evidence of title on record 
in any CUty or County Office, and deeds given to individuals are 
frequently lost. 

Hundreds of families in Detroit have no evidence as to where 
their parents or grand-parents are buried and maiiy who are 
interested in genealogical researches (and all ought to be) would 
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o;neration should remedy this evil as far as possible and those 
who follow should have such a record as can now be obtained 
and preserved. 

The evidence afforded by such a register as is here given, will 
often be of value as a clue in settling titles to property, aid many 
persons who do not easily find their lots, and become an mc^as- 
ingly valuable historic record, as the changes of time obhteiate 
monuments and recollections. 

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OFFICERS 



OF THE 



Wayne County Savings Bank 



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S. DOW ELWOOD, _ - - - President. 
D. M. FERRY, - _ - - Vice-President. 

WM. STAGG, - - Ass't Sec'y and Treasurer. 
WM. A. MOORE, ----- Attorney. 



DIRECTORS. 

THOMAS W. PALMER. D. M. FERRY. 

WILLIAM A. MOORE. JEROME CROUL. 

H. KIRKE WHITE. FRANCIS ADAMS. 

E. H. FLINN L. P. KNIGHT. 

S. DOW ELWOOD. 



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Bo(»k fumishnl without chart'*'. 

Makkiku Wwmkn iitxl Minor ChiMni. 
that no om* d«* <an ilmu it. 



>«M iKiiK- may lirjM.sit iimiii y from iiiin' lo immc. and, U-fon- 
nmkinir thr first dr|»osit, nmy providr by voir how ami hy whtun 
it shall Im" ilniwn out; and, prnvich-*! a «i»py of thr resohition is 
funiiHht'iJ to thr Savin>rs lijuik, n«) money will \u- paid, unhss its 
provisions an* strirtly i-ompHe<l with. 

MtvNs Vim luKNTiKYiM. I )hi"o>iTous. — \Vlnn a n«'w depositor 
firet comes to the Savings Bank. pre<'autions are taken and re- 
cords made, so that he may always Ih« identifle<l. and in chsc a 
h«H)k is lost. lh«' owner thereof cjinnot Iw «h«frmd<'d. 

PEHsons KESii)iN<i OUTSIDE tilt- L'itv < 'f Oitroit. who may wish 
t«» di'posit money of their own in the Wayne County Savings 
liiuik. or the funds (»f Kstates. Heirs. Minor Children, or Trust 
funds of any kind, can do mj in person, or l>y remitting t<i the IJank 
by Express. Draft, P. O. Onler, an<l a Certirtcate of Deposit or 
Rank B<H>k can Im* ri'tunied; and, luxler the rules of the Hank, 
the money cannot be withdrawn, unless the owner is identified in 
person, or has given proper authority for others to draw tlie sjime. 

.1// tran«ticti«M irith thin Jitiiik an strictly ronftttential. 



BANKiNti IIouus.— « o'clock A. M. iMiiil il-'ilock I". M. Satur- 
days, in the evening from 6 to S. 

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REPORT OF THE CONDITION 

OF THE 

WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK 

AT 

IDETI?,OIT, IMIZCH. 
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, MAY 4, 1891. 



RESOURCES. 



Loans and discounts $1,372,173 65 

Real estate, loans 1.055,919 94 

Invested in bonds 2,169,946 03 

Due from banks in reserve cities 746,194 90 

Banking house and lot 110.000 00 

Furniture and fixtures 6,625 12 

Other real estate 37,137 58 

Current expenses and taxes paid 16.181 47 

Premium paid on bonds 10,425 82 

Collections in transit 2,261 36 

Checks and cash items 26,191 04 

Nickels and pennies 256 04 

Gold 50,990 00 

Silver 2.648 60 

U. S. and national bank notes 40.530 00 



Totai $5,647,481 55 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital stock paid in $ 150,000 00 

Surplus fund 150,000 00 

Undivided profits 310,972 00 

Savings deposits 5,032.859 15 

Premium and exchange 580 40 

Foreign exchange 15 00 

Rent account 3,054 98 



Total $5,647,481 J5 

State of Michigan, County of Wayne, ss. 

I, Wm, Stagg, Assistant Treaslirer of the above named bank, 
do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of 
my knowledge and belief. 

WM. STAGG, Assistant Treasurer. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of May, 1891. 
CHARLES F. COLLINS, Notary Public. 

Correct — Attest: 

H. K. WHITE. ) 

S. DOW ELWOOD, - Directors. 

D. M. FERRY, ) 

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WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, 

JANUARY 1, 1891. 



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OCCUPATIONS OF DEPOSITORS— (?o«Y/)n<ed. 



Printers, 700. 

Plumbers. 183. 

Pattern Makers, 65. 

Plasterers, 172. 

Policemen, 129. 

Peddlers, 177. 

Porters, 97. 

Paymasters, 10. 

Photographers, 65. 

Perfumers, 11. 

Roofers, 21. 

Railroad Men, 291. 

Real Estate Dealers, 43. 

Reporters, 15. 

Rectifiers, 10. 

Servants, 399. 

Sail Makers, 63. 

Sewing Machine Operators, 21. 

Surveyors, 22. 

Sailors, 653. 

Stereographers, 10. 

Shoeniakers, 781. 

Stationers, 13. 

Superintendents, 21. 

Salcx )n Keepers, 280. 

Students, 775. 

Stone Cutters, 205. 

Societies, 302. 

Stevt^ards, 21. 



Saddlers. 43. 
Steamboat Men, 32. 
Switchmen, 37. 
Sawyei-s. 43. 
Trunk Makers. 43. 
Tinsmiths, 322. 
Tobacconists, 111. 
Tailors, 450. 
Teachers, 302. 
Tanners, 237. 
Teamsters, 268. 
Trustees. 10. 

Telegraph Operators, 210. 
Treasurers. 43. 
U. S. Army, 280. 
Upholsterers, 172. 
U. S. Navy, 43. 
Varnishers, 21. 
Watchmakers, 65. 
Wagonmakers, 118. 
Wood Sawyers, 21. 
Watchmen, 75. 
Wood Tui-ners, 65. 
Whitewashers, 21. 
Waiters, 73. 
Wire Workers, 97. 
Wood Dealers. 21. 
Women, 13,706. 



NATIVITY OF DEPOSITORS. 



America. 23,979. 
Germany, 1.3,047 
Ireland, 5,508. 
Canada, 4,022. 
England, 3,096. 
Nova Scotia, 21. 
India, 21. 
Finland, 43. 
Wales, 84. 
France, 454. 
Scotland. 1,670. 
Poland, 511 



Unknown, 1,221. 
Russia. 43. 
Switzerland, 603. 
Belgium. 151. 
Sweden, 86. 
Bohemia. 216. 



Denmark, 
Cuba, 21. 
Italy, 108. 
Holland, 5 
China, 32. 
Japan. 2. 



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inntion as to the sjiilinir and arrival of <Kean stt-aniers, an<l a list 
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